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xfig like copying
by Gijsbert Stoet 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

This is a follow up on my earlier post regarding copying object while retaining horizontal or vertical alignment. I just figured that the easiest way to do this is to: 1) Copy object 2) Paste in place (from the edit menu) 3) then move the new object while holding the ctrl key It is quite interesting to compare the xfig and inkscape interface. Although Inkscape is nowadays 100x better than xfig, the original xfig interface has some nice features with which you can do some things really quick (Maybe that is just because I am used to it. But to give just an example). For example, if you have a drawing and there is a whole bunch of objects that need to be copied, each to different place. In Xfig, you can just click the copy icon, and you are in copy mode. Every object you touch with your mouse+click will be copied. In Inkscape, or any other modern drawing program for that matter, you need to perform a couple of operation to each object. I wonder whether I am the only one whole likes these Xfig features.

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question about copying while maintaining perfect alignment
by Gijsbert Stoet 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

There is a way of copying in Xfig that is really handy, and I wonder whether something similar is available in Inkscape. In Xfig, you can click the copy Icon and then copy the original with the middle mouse button clicked to a position that is either perfectly horizontally or vertically aligned. This is handy if you want a copy of the original perfectly next or underneath the original. In Inkscape I have to do this differently. I first copy and paste the object to a new location, and then I have to manually align it to its original using the alignment dialog. Of course that is not too hard, but in Xfig it is easier. Since this is an operation that I use often, I miss the Xfig way of copying. Maybe it is possible in Inkscape, since there are so many handy key shortcuts I am not yet aware of. I looked this up in the Inkscape tutorials, but could not find it yet. Let me know if there is an easy way to do this. Thanks.

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Symbol & other font in Windows
by Arnout Standaert 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Hi all, I'd just like to signal that the 0606051800 build isn't showing some fonts over here (WinXP SP2). Mainly Symbol, Webdings and Wingdings and some others. They're regular TTF fonts, like the rest, but simply do not show up in the list. Any ideas? Thanks, Arnout

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image scaling
by none none 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Is it a bug or a feature that inkscape can't upsample an embedded raster image? also if an image is rotated it doesn't get done very well (do the same rotation in the gimp and it will be nice and smooth) FYI batik handles upsampling and rotation nicely, although the build I'm using doesn't seem to antialias the edges of images :( Any idea when this will be implemented in inkscape? should i file a bug? Thanks, Alex

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milestone 11
by Benjamin Huot 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

I was looking at the Roadmap, sepecifically Milestone 11/Inkscape.45 and it listed PDF export as an option, but I have already been able to export directly to PDF from the Inkscape export dialog from at least .43 onwards. Does this mean that it will have a PDF export that will be handled by Inkscape itself rather than by Ghostscript or there will be more features or what? http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap

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Exporting objects as SVG?
by Christopher B. Wright 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

I get the feeling this question was asked on the list sometime back, but I can't honestly remember if it was or not. Currently it's possible to draw a complex image in Inkscape, and export a portion of that image as a bitmap by selecting the "selection" tab on the Export Bitmap panel. What I'm wondering is, is it possible to do something similar with SVG? If I've drawn a complicated object in Inkscape and I want to save parts of that object separately, what do I do? For example: I draw a webcomic and I've been using Inkscape for it for at least three releases so far. It works pretty well, but I have to keep all the characters saved in a single template file for re-use. The more characters I add the larger the file gets, and if the comic gets too complicated pretty soon the hard drive is thrashing just because there are so many unnecessary elements in the file. It would be great if I could save each character as an individual svg file that I could import into a document as needed, but I can't seem to find any option in the menu that does that. Is this possible? Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@...537...)

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autopackage upgrade
by Benjamin Huot 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

I have installed the autopackage distribution of Inkscape .44pre2 on Ubuntu 6.06. It works great - I enjoy the new icons, cloning, and the export to .xcf with layers and there looks like there is much more I could use with some more exploration. After the summer of code comes back with their projects for Gimp, I should be able to do more advanced design on Linux than on my Mac. And not long after that we will have Xara 1.0. I will have a hard time deciding whether to do more with Xara or Inkscape. Excellent progress. Anyway, how do I upgrade the autopackage when the final .44 comes out? Do I need to uninstall the old one and then reinstall the new one or do I just install the new package?

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universal mac binary
by Benjamin Huot 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

When will Inkscape be a Universal (PowerPC/Intel) Mac binary?

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0.44pre2 on OS X: no more icon for SVG file type?
by Artemiy Pavlov 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Hello all! I am using Inkscape on Mac OS 10.4.6 / Intel. Just installed 0.44pre2 over 0.44pre0 and saw that the SVG file icon is now set to the blank one, but Inkscape is still set as a default application for the SVG files. With all Inkscape versions it displayed Inkscape logo on the icon. I tried re-assigning Inkscape as a default application for SVG files, but that didn't help. Reverted to pre0, no luck, then to pre2, all the same. I tried assigning GIMP as a default app for SVG - now all SVG files have the GIMP logo. But reverting to Inkscape as a default app makes the icon blank again. Perhaps some icon is missing in the .app bundle. I also filed it in Bugs: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1500596&group_id=93438&atid=604306 Thanks, Artemiy.

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Connector: Arrow outside
by Bernhard Walle 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Hello, is it possible to draw diagrams with the connector tool where the arrow is not centered but outside the rectangle. Following picture should explain what I mean: http://www.bwalle.de/temp/connector.svg Regards, Bernhard -- Unser Zeitalter ist stolz auf Maschinen die denken und mißtrauisch gegen Menschen, die es versuchen. -- (unbekannt)

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